Sentence examples for sense bitter from inspiring English sources
Their taste for sweet foods helped them find nutritious fruits, and their ability to sense bitter tastes helped them to avoid poisonous plants.
Our results suggest that cetaceans have lost four of the basic taste modalities including sour, sweet, umami, and most of the ability to sense bitter tastes.
In contrast, in trachea, microvillous cells expressing ChAT are solitary chemosensory cells that also express bitter receptors and sense bitter compounds via a cholinergic pathway initiating an aversive reflex (Krasteva et al. 2011).
This article from New Scientist describes how people from Kenya and Cameroon show a striking amount of diversity in a gene responsible for sensing bitter tastes.
Sensing bitter tastes is crucial for many animals because it can prevent them from ingesting harmful foods.
In contrast another receptor family that senses bitter tastants, the Taste2 receptors, are fewer in dog than in many other mammals.
Among these chemical senses, bitter tastes are particularly important because many poisonous substances tend to be bitter, and bitter taste perception can allow animals to detect and avoid toxins in food [ 7].
While sweet and umami tastes each have a single receptor, humans harbor 25 receptors (mice have 35) for sensing bitter compounds, consistent with the notion that the ability to taste diverse bitter compounds prevents the consumption of potentially toxic substances.
It is the blistering, heartfelt sense of bitter grievance and injustice that is missing from the book.
Hence, among the three chicken Tas2rs, which represent an interesting minimalistic model system for the sense of bitter taste in vertebrates, the ggTas2r1 is the most specific subtype for chickens' bitter tasting abilities.
